"Scarlet Fever: Women's Enthusiasm for Men in ..." Topic

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Tango01

02 Dec 2015 11:49 a.m. PST

…Uniform 1780-1815'.

"Female enthusiasm for men in red coats was a recurrent topic of interest in late eighteenth-century letters, diaries, newspapers, plays and novels. Propaganda played on it and commentators and satirists often noted it with a mixture of bemusement and envy, characterising it as ‘scarlet fever'. The association of martial service with female admiratio…"
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